It’s Senior Week at Georgetown, and while there won’t be any basketball players living it up at the President’s Picnic, Convocation, or Senior Ball (okay, some of the Hoyas will probably make their way to Union Station on Friday Night), that doesn’t mean that Georgetown Basketball fans should ignore what’s going on at the Hilltop.

• This is a time to reflect on the careers of DaJuan Summers, Jeremiah Rivers, and Vernon Macklin. Though none of them lasted four years, that doesn’t detract from the contributions they provided on the 2006 Big East Regular Season, Big East Tournament, and NCAA East Regional Championship team.
• It’s also a time to look back on the career of Greg Monroe. He’s heading to the NBA next season, and even if he comes back to earn his degree, this is his last week on campus as “normal” undergraduate – though his two years have been anything but ordinary.
• And while looking back on players gone is kind of a sad thing, there’s one big positive to look forward to this upcoming weekend. On Saturday, at the College Commencement, Hoya legend Dikembe Mutombo will be speaking. Besides addressing the 2010 senior class, Dikembe will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters from the University.

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• The Georgetown Hoyas won on their first Saturday home game of the season, defeating the Lafayette Leopards 97-64. They play again tonight, facing the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers in their first two-day turnaround of the season.
• Two undefeated teams in the Top 10 lost their first games this past week. #9 Tennessee lost to #6 Purdue 73-72 on Monday, and last night, #2 Michigan State lost to unranked Florida 77-74. Former Hoya Vernon Macklin scored 10 points in the upset.
• Jessie Sapp had an incredible game in Scotland last night as the Glasgow Rocks defeated the Worcester Wolves 111-59. Jessie had 31 points, 11 assists, 7 rebounds, and 8 steals in the game in what he described as “bron bron numbers” on his Twitter account.

• According to Fox Sports, Vernon Macklin has decided where he wants to transfer to: the University of Florida. He will have to sit out next year and then will have two years of eligibility for the Gators.
• The Utah Jazz defeated the Houston Rockets 113-91 on Friday, sending Dikembe Mutombo home for the summer. Dikembe was the last Hoya still in the NBA playoffs after the Lakers sent Allen Iverson and the Nuggets packing last week.

Sophomore forward Vernon Macklin will not be returning for his junior year at the hilltop according to a Georgetown Basketball press release. We talked about transfers a few weeks ago, and it looks like we’ll have to add Macklin’s name to that list.

I’m sorry this is so late, but I have been pretty upset and tired from my road trip to Raleigh. I’ll fill you in on some of the details of that trip later on, but in the meantime, here are my postgame thoughts.

Teams

Georgetown:
Georgetown played as good of a game as they’ve put together this season, and unfortunately, they ended up on the losing end. There were probably too many unforced turnovers, too many offensive fouls, and too little rebounding at the beginning of the second half, but other than that, there was not too much to complain about on the Hoyas’ end.
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Teams

Georgetown:
The Hoyas utterly dominated the game in all aspects. The smothering defense kept St. John’s without a field goal for most of the first half, while the overpowering offense started the game on a 27-3 run. Even without perma-starter DaJuan Summers in the lineup, the Hoyas cruised to their easiest victory of the year.
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I don’t think it can be considered a bright spot, since there is no brightness after a loss, but Vernon Macklin played very well against Pittsburgh. He won’t go 5 for 5 every game from here on out, but for a guy who had been struggling to score lately, he looked like he was playing with confidence.
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Teams

Georgetown:
No one shot the ball well from distance, as the Hoyas finished the game 3-20 from beyond the arc. Georgetown was also sloppy on the defensive end, getting badly outrebounded and giving up a number of easy baskets and uncontested threes. They will have to work to clean that up before facing the Notre Dame tandem of big man Luke Harangody and shooter Kyle McAlarney.
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